Cyberpragmatics is an analysis of Internet-mediated communication from the perspective of
cognitive pragmatics. It addresses a whole range of interactions that can be found on the …

In Alphabet to Email Naomi Baron takes us on a fascinating and often entertaining journey
through the history of the English language, showing how technology-especially email-is …

Thirty years ago, in The Naked Sun, Isaac Asimov created the planet of Solaria, whose
inhabitants rarely met face-to-face. Instead, people'viewed'one another through trimensional …

The analysis in this paper centres on an email exchange between a lecturer and a student at
the University of Auckland which resulted in the dismissal of that lecturer. This dismissal …

Drawing on the newest findings of politeness research, this paper proposes an
interactionally grounded approach to computer-mediated discourse (CMD). Through the …

Begins by reviewing relevant literature to identify some of the features that are said to
appear exclusively in e‐mails. Also highlights the main issues in the debate between those …

The study of politeness and disagreement in computer-mediated communication (CMC) is a
bourgeoning area of study in pragmatics. Adopting the discursive and interactional …

This article addresses e-mail communication between university students and a lecturer in
the Czech Republic. A total of 260 e-mail messages that contained a high imposition request …

The YouTube community is diverse. On any given day, YouTube's most-viewed list is
populated by a hotchpotch of internet miscellanea: the home videos of a self-proclaimed …

This paper functions as the introduction to the special issue on 'relational work in Facebook
and discussion boards'. We position our research endeavors within interpersonal …